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A Summer Day (Wilma): Existential and eccentric

Kathryn Osenlund June 24, 2025 No Comments

An existential and eccentric play , it’s not light-hearted theater.

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GIOVANNI’S ROOM (Quintessence): Bringing Baldwin to the stage

Kathryn Osenlund June 9, 2025 No Comments

Giovanni’s Room, is currently on stage in Philadelphia in world premiere. The James Baldwin Estate granted Quintessence Theatre permission to produce this theatrical adaptation, the…

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RENT (Arden): Revisiting a 90s La boheme

Kathryn Osenlund June 2, 2025 No Comments

Jonathan Larson,  who wrote the book, lyrics, and music in 1994, described Rent as a Rock Opera

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THE 39 STEPS (Lantern): Hitchcock onstage

Kathryn Osenlund May 28, 2025 No Comments

Adapted by Patrick Barlow from the novel by John Buchan and the movie by Alfred Hitchcock

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Quintessence): The Bard’s crazy side

Kathryn Osenlund March 25, 2025 No Comments

Hard to imagine that the Bard who wrote this fun and foolish play also penned Hamlet, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet.

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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Lantern): Still a joy

Kathryn Osenlund February 25, 2025 No Comments

A script needs life breathed into it and that’s what happens with an inspired director, designers, and talented versatile actors.

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POTUS (Arden): Brash and in your face

Kathryn Osenlund September 26, 2024 No Comments

Warning: These seven marvelous actors in the all female cast, are not your nice Aunt Sara. Wild and untamed, they’re women without borders. Stepping out…

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FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS (Qunitessence): A theatrical odyssey

Kathryn Osenlund June 11, 2024 No Comments

Father Comes Home From The Wars by Suzan-Lori Parks is remarkable in many ways. There’s no denying the appeal that took the audience to its…

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THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (Lantern): Twins, shipwreck, mistaken identity, romance gone awry

Kathryn Osenlund May 28, 2024 No Comments

One of Shakespeare’s greatest hits, his first comedy, The Comedy of Errors, is playing at the Lantern Theater Company until June 16. Twins, shipwreck, mistaken…

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Reviews

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE (Miller Theater): A sting in the tale

Toby Zinman May 17, 2024 No Comments

This is a show—not a play, not musical theater—about bodies and the astonishing things this company of 23 dancers can do

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CHILDREN OF THE SUN (PAC): A knockout contemporary production of a rarely seen classic

Toby Zinman May 5, 2024 1 Comment

Now this is what a collective can do: a huge cast all so attuned to each others’ idiosyncrasies that they might as well be the household they are portraying.

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KILL MOVE PARADISE (South Camden Theatre): 60-second review

Toby Zinman May 3, 2024 1 Comment

South Camden Theatre Company’s latest production of James Ijames’s wildly moving play, Kill Move Paradise, is terrific

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TORCH SONG (1812 Productions): Songs from another time

Toby Zinman May 2, 2024 No Comments

Although the defense of gay life and  the LGBTQ+  community is in a different place now, I imagine for many in the audience, Torch Song still sings.

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HADESTOWN (National Tour): To hell and back

Toby Zinman April 11, 2024 No Comments

What with the solar eclipse and an earthquake, we—sophisticated, scientific, blasé—are in a perfect position to imagine what ancient, primitive people must have thought and felt when the ground shook and the lights went out.

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Intersection (Curtis New Music Ensemble): “New music” from the rebranded ensemble

Michael Fisher April 7, 2024 No Comments

In what other walks of musical life would a piece composed more than seventy years ago by a composer born more than one hundred years ago constitute new music?

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MACBETH (Quintessence): Onstage magic

Kathryn Osenlund April 1, 2024 No Comments

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Cool it with a baboon’s blood, then the charm is firm and good. Macbeth, the…

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THE LEHMAN TRILOGY (Arden): A play in three acts

Kathryn Osenlund March 21, 2024 No Comments

A tale about cotton, Civil War, commodities, finance, and wealth told through the story of three brothers and the company they found.

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60-Second Review Reviews Theater

Once Upon a Bridge (Inis Nua): 60-second review

Kathryn Osenlund March 11, 2024 No Comments

 Inis Nua has done its best with a story more told than shown, an aftermath.

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OVERWINTER (Azuka): A laboratory for important ideas

Toby Zinman March 3, 2024 1 Comment

Azuka Theatre presents Overwinter, an interesting new play by local playwright Mackenzie Raine Kirkman; it’s about important ideas, making it a welcome change from the…

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Music Reviews

THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA (Academy of Vocal Arts): A dilettante at large review

Toby Zinman February 23, 2024 No Comments

DAL continues her musical education with this stunning chamber opera at the Academy of Vocal Arts.

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